Re: [PHP-DB] Yet another Call to Undefined Function help request

OK, sounds good, what am I looking for?  I don't see the module being declared in my php.ini file on either of my servers.

Alex

Fortuno, Adam wrote:
> Alex:
> 
> It sounds like the MySQL extension module isn't loading. Here are some
> things to confirm:
> 
>  - Ensure the module is declared in your php.ini file
>  - If it exists in the php.ini, confirm the module is located and named
> as stated in the php.ini file.
>  - If the module is named and located in the proper place, check your
> permissions on that extension. You want to make sure whatever is running
> your sight can access the module.
> 
> I hope this helps!
> 
> A-
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Moen [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 9:54 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [PHP-DB] Yet another Call to Undefined Function help request
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> PLEASE, don't just toss the e-mail... I think I have a unique enough
> situation to warrant this e-mail.
> 
> First, I have searched the mailing lists for the answer to my problem.
> I have also tried to find the answer through the documentation, but have
> been 
> unsuccessful.  Mailing lists are always my last resort.
> 
> Here's the situation.  I have an *old* Cobalt Raq appliance with Apache
> 1.3.20 and an older version of mysql on it.  I have a customer that
> wants to 
> use a database on his website, and rather than update this old,
> unsupported appliance and possibly break something, or go through the
> hassle of moving 
> this customer with 100+ e-mail addresses to a different server, we have
> installed a new, dedicated mysql server to use system-wide for any of
> our 
> customers, and ourselves, to use as a db server.  This seemed like a
> good idea at the time, and I think it will work well once we figure out
> the bugs 
> here.
> 
> Now, everything was going swimmingly, until we tried to access the db
> with php on a web page (which is where we got the call to undefined
> function). 
> It was an old version of php, so I thought I'd upgrade, not as scary as
> upgrading all three pieces of software.  No resolution there.  I
> compiled it 
> with mysql support, but still get the undefined function error.  Now, on
> the new db server, phpinfo reports a whole section on mysql.  On this
> older 
> server, there is no mysql section in phpinfo.  I can log in and access
> the databases remotly from the Cobalt server using command line mysql; I
> would 
> like to try this at cli using php but don't know how.
> 
> I am obviously missing something and I can't find the answer anywhere,
> other than "reinstall apache, mysql, and php", which is kind of scary on
> a 
> server this old that is running as well as it is.  Not only that, but my
> ego is kicking in here and I would really like to understand what the
> problem 
> is rather than just reinstalling everything... That just seems too M$ to
> me.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alex
>